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Well romaine lettuce happens to be, by far, my most favorite salad green. And my husband and I just adore Caesar salad.
. Super mild smell, and not as powerful in taste as olive oil. Sometimes when you are used to store bought or restaurant dressings, olive oil based homemade dressings can be a little overwhelming.
Caesar Dressing
This dressing is loaded with beautiful friendly fats to nourish your family. And especially knowing how hard my husband works all day, it is so important to replenish him with real food.
Ingredients
- 1 pastured egg yolk See tips section if you are egg free!
- 1-2 tsp organic mustard watch those ingredients!
- Juice of ½ a lemon about 1 TB
- ½ cup avocado oil
Could also do ¼ cup avocado oil and ¼ cup olive oil - ¼ cup whole sour cream see tips section if you are dairy free!
- ¼ cup grated organic parmesan Raw if available. See tips section if you are dairy free!
- ¼ tsp garlic powder
- ¼ tsp onion powder
- 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper Or more if you want more heat!
- 1 tsp sea salt
- ¼ tsp pepper
Instructions
- Everything into a pint jar and use an immersion blender to emulsify!
- If you don’t have an immersion blender you could add everything but the oil to a food processor and add the oil in slowly through the top drip opening to emulsify.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Tips:
- This makes a little over half pint of dressing which is perfect for sending with my husband to work to keep in the fridge there for his salads for a week. Just double up if you want more! If I know all of us will be eating it I will double up into a quart jar and send half along with my husband to work.
- If you are egg free, it should work to just keep the yolk out and maybe use an extra scoop of sour cream.
- If you are dairy free, you can use coconut yogurt or coconut milk instead of the sour cream. And for the parm you have a couple options. Many people who can’t have cow dairy can have sheep or goat milk – so you could use Pecorino Romano which is a sheep milk cheese. Look in the gourmet cheese section at your grocer if you don’t have a cheesemaker near you. Feta could work although is a softer cheese. If you can’t have that then I would just leave out the cheese. You may have to add more sea salt to create the taste of the cheese.
- An immersion blender really does work best for the dressing if you are wanting to go fast! Just emulsify it right up in the jar! No mess! My food processor works as well, you just have to drizzle the oil in slowly with the drip top.
- Don’t forget the kids! The girls *love* Caeaser salad – and I ordered these stainless steel condiment containers for my oldest’s lunchbox this fall. I can pack her a salad
and she can pour on the dressing herself!
instead of the sour cream. And for the parm you have a couple options. Many people who can’t have cow dairy can have sheep or goat milk – so you could use Pecorino Romano which is a sheep milk cheese. Look in the gourmet cheese section at your grocer if you don’t have a cheesemaker near you. Feta could work although is a softer cheese. If you can’t have that then I would just leave out the cheese. You may have to add more sea salt to create the taste of the cheese.
really does work best for the dressing if you are wanting to go fast! Just emulsify it right up in the jar! No mess! My 
works as well, you just have to drizzle the oil in slowly with the drip top.
for my oldest’s lunchbox this fall. I can 
Tell me how the family likes the dressing when you try it!
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YES! A caesar dressing that is actually nourishing! This is a great day in the Libby household because I thought we would have to swear it off forever! 🙂
Perfect Libby! Yay!
I love making my own Cesar salad dressing!
Mine came out a little too salty, but I’m not sure if I did anything wrong or not? What kind of mustard do you use?
Pinned! Sounds delicious!
Thank you Raia!
I want to just take a spoon and eat that! Yum!!!
Ummm I totally do that 😉
This looks so good! I can’t wait to try it.
It is so good – I hope you guys enjoy it!
This really looks great. I use avocado oil a lot also. When I went to Hawaii, it was impossible to buy a decent brand of olive oil and have been using avocado oil ever since.
Here’s a tip for making salad dressings. Most blender bottoms screw onto a canning jar without a problem. Whenever I make dressing, I simply put all my ingredients into a small topped canning jar, screw the blender blade into it, flip it upside down and blend it. Voila! You have a jar of salad dressing to keep in the fridge and all you have to wash is the blender blade.
Very cool!
My husband sounds like yours. He cannot stand most vegetables but loves caesar salads, with plenty of croutons-btw! I have been wanting to try making his caesar dressing for a while now because any healthier versions that I have found in the stores do not taste like what you get at a restaurant or like Ken’s brand which is his favorite. This sounds like it might be the right one! The only thing that concerns me is the cayenne. He doesn’t like spicy. Does caesar dressing typically have cayenne? Can you taste the cayenne or does it blend in? I really want to try this!
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Love Caesar salad! I have a healthy recipe similar to this. For those who don’t do dairy or want to do less of it, you can add nutritional yeast to replace that sharp tangy flavor of the cheese. I love your site!
Thank you Jill! I appreciate your kind words!
How long do you think this was last in the fridge? a week? two weeks? My husband loves caesar dressing but I don’t like it as much.
With the egg yolk in there it will be about a week. If you want less dressing you could half the recipe (you can keep a whole yolk in there though) 🙂
I finally got my wife on board to eat more salad but, I am afraid that if she becomes to bored with it she will lose interest. I’m going to give this a try to keep her engaged. Super easy recipe and I can get all the ingredients here in Germany. Thank you!
Hi Regina! Great! Here are some more ideas for her to try as well :: https://www.raisinggenerationnourished.com/2014/04/diy-salad-dressings-5-recipes-whole-family-will-love/
Since avocados are on the “Clean Fifteen” list, I don’t really worry so much about getting organic avocado oil. Please do another post if your research shows that organic avocado oil is much better than conventional! I can’t wait to try this dressing – I love a good Caeser!
Hi Mim! I don’t buy organic avos for that reason either. I don’t think it mentions in the post that the oil must be organic – correct me though if I am not catching that! I did link the brand I was using at the time that I wrote the post – and actually since I wrote this post our Costco has started carrying Avocado oil at a much better price point for me so I am purchasing it there now 🙂 I hope that helps – enjoy the dressing!
My husband sounds like yours. He cannot stand most vegetables but loves caesar salads, with plenty of croutons-btw! I have been wanting to try making his caesar dressing for a while now because any healthier versions that I have found in the stores do not taste like what you get at a restaurant or like Ken’s brand which is his favorite. This sounds like it might be the right one! The only thing that concerns me is the cayenne. He doesn’t like spicy. Does caesar dressing typically have cayenne? Can you taste the cayenne or does it blend in? I really want to try this!
Hi Stephany! Just leave the cayenne out and give it a taste to see what you think. There is usually a bit of a salty-heat bite to ceasar from the sardines – It is not “spicy” at all but you can try it without and see what you think 🙂
That is what I needed to know! That is a great idea to taste it without it first. But as long as I know it isn’t spicy that is what I needed. I can’t wait to try this! Also, is the avocado oil that is pictured above the same avocado oil from Mountain Rose Herbs? When I went to the link it showed a plain bottle with no label. I was just curious what to expect if I ordered this oil. Thanks so much for replying to the questions that you get.
Hi Staphany – no problem 🙂 The avo oil is mountain rose herbs although since writing this post our Costco started carrying some and I love it 🙂 And the price – so I have switched 🙂
I am curious about why you use garlic powder instead of fresh garlic. I LOVE fresh garlic in my salad dressing!
Hi Kiersten! I LOVE fresh garlic too! I go through a good 4 or so heads per week! In this recipe the un-cooked garlic gives too much heat – it would make the dressing pretty spicy. You could certainly try it if you want though!
Renee, I am so happy to find you. I have been searching for healthier NO MSG dressings forever. I am going to collect ingredients and start trying several of your recipes. I am also excited that you give us dairy free options for some of your recipes. That is so kind of you…extra work for you, but so nice for us NO DAIRY folks. Thank you for sharing with us.
You’re welcome Sharon!
I just finish making the ceasar dressing and I really enjoyed it. Made it with coconut milk (wasn’t too sure at first) and it turn out great. I have to watch my cholesterol. From now on it is my fav ceasar dressing… Thank you.
That’s great Greg! Glad you enjoyed it!
This dressing was SO good! I made it for my birthday dinner and we loved it!
Hi Amy! That is so great! Thanks for letting me know!
Your dressing recipes are an answer to a prayer. Hopefully I can get my husband to stop buying bottled dressing!
Hi Bernadette! That’s great 😉 Dressing was a hard one for my hubby too!
I am newly on a very restricted food intolerance diet, and am finding that having a variety of dressings on hand is the key for flexibility, especially for eating at work or out (just put a little travel size squeeze bottle in your purse or work frig). By swapping rice vinegar for the lemon, this is also fruit free (I can have avocado oil, some fruit free people cannot), as well as potato free, soy free, etc. etc. Excuse my language, but this dressing is fucking amazing!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Hi Gwyn! I definitely know how that goes! I’m so glad this works for you!
Absolutely fantastic tasting Cesar dressing with a twist! I make my own mayo and have tried so many Cesar dressing recipes, but most end up tasting weird! Loved this dressing!!
So glad you loved it Susann!